fly bags are amazing!!!!

[TnChickHen]

We've got one of these smelly things in our coop... but it's only caught about 15 flies. I don't trust it... and I constantly run into it!

Lol. I've started using a yard spray. The floor (ours is dirt, yay...not really) needs to be dry before letting them walk on it, so they free range. After spraying this stuff, I found a lot of maggots on top of the soil!!!

 

[BarefootMom]

I bought one at our feed store for our rabbitry it is AWESOME. I don't remember what brand it is and I am not going outside right now to look. But I only paid like $3 for it. They only had 1 though, hopefully when I go in on Saturday they will have some more. I know the one I have says it will hold 10,000 dead flies. ugh mine probably already has a few hundred in it! It is smelly, but so is the rabbit poo.

 

[NorthTexaschick]

I tried some of those stinky bait-and-toss traps too, and I CANNOT STAND the smell! Even worse, they did not attract many flies. (You hang 'em up - the flies are down low.) We get those big rolls of sticky trap and just anchor them in the yard with rocks (where the chickens can't go). I'm always amazed at how quickly they fill up. No smell. Maybe rather inconvenient, though, to find a place to put them so kids/chickens/other pets don't get stuck too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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I bought one of those to see if it would help and it stunk so bad we thought we had a dead animal under our porch. I don't think there is anywhere close to the house I could put it without smelling it. Yuck

I ended up taking it down and throwing it away. It does catch alot of flies though.

 

[craftymama86]

I'm going to suggest these to my DH. Right now we're using those kind of traps that you pull out of the tube and you hang them... I found them at Dollar Tree, I think 6 in one pack. Pretty cheap but my goodness they're almost full of flies one just one day!.... I think a small bird hit one too, there were feathers all over it, lol.

 

[Moochie]

I knew the fly bags were better! The guy at Home Depot told my mom the re-usable container was best, so she bought them all, and not a single fly has went in one. So much for not listening to what your daughter reads on BYC forums

 

[classicsredone]

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I'm glad I'm not the only one that can smell it. After a few days I can't go near one without retching, so my husband has to take care of them. They do work, though. The bait is putrefied egg white, yeast, and sugars. Add that to the smell of decaying flies, and it really attracts them. We just threw out one last week that had four inches of dead flies in it - and we live in a suburban area with a chicken tractor that is kept clean daily.

 

[classicsredone]

Btw - have any of you noticed the flies being much worse this year? They seem to be here, at least. We got well over our normal in rainfall, so I wonder if that has something to do with it.

 

[redhen]

I'm getting some of these this week. Cant. take. the. flies. anymore.
I tried the plastic reusable ones.... they sucked.
So we'll be trying these this week.
And yes, the flies are VERY bad this year. Mosquitoes also...

 

[lowry075]

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